Wardrobe-fixture



B. BRAGER.

WARDROBE FIXTURE. APPLICAUON FILED MAY31, 1919. RENEWEDJAN. 21.1921.

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ATTORNEYS WESSES UNITED STATES BERNARD BRAGER, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK.

WARDROBE-FIXTURE.

Application led May 31, 1919, Serial No. 300,944. Renewed January 21, 1921.v

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, BERNARD BRAGER, a

citizen of Russia, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Wardrobe-Fixture, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to wardrobe lixturcs and has particular reference to a simple, neat, practical and reliable means attachable to the luider side of a wardrobe shelf or other analogous support for the support of garment hangers or the like.

Among the objects of the invention, therefore, is to provide a fixed channel member in or along which is movable an adjustable rail member and adapted for movement both lengthwise of the channel member and to be rotated around the axis movable lengthwise of the channel member.

Another object of the invention is to provide a movable rail member having an integral downwardly projecting handle for the manipulation thereof in any direction with respect to the fixed channel member.

A still further object is to provide a rail member for the support of garment hangers or the like provided with facilities for supporting trousers, skirts or the like in the best possible position.

With the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists in the arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described and claimed, and while the invention is not restricted to the exactdetails of construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose of illustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to the accompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate the same parts in the several views, and in which Figure l is a side elevation of one form of my improvement applied to the under surface of a wardrobe shelf.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same and indicating by dotted lines the adaptability of the supporting rail to be turned around a vertical axis.

Fig. 3 is a vertical longitudinal sectional detail on the line 3 3 of Fig. 4 and indicating a slight modification from Figs. 1 and 2.

Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of the same on the line 4 4 of Fig. 3.

Figs. 5 and 6 are plan and side views respectively indicating the adaptability of Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 1, 192,1.

serial N. 439,648.

Referring now more specifically to the' drawings I show a channel member 10 of substantially rectangular form in cross section having an open central slot 10 in its bottom'. The channel member is adapted to be secured in rigid or fixed position beneath a shelf 11 by means of screws 12, or their equivalent, passed upward through the top portion of the channel member, access being had thereto for the screw driver through the slot 10. This channel member may be made of any suitable material, but preferably of sheet metal of sufficient strength for its purpose and having closed ends 13 constituting positive stops for any device movable within the channel member.4

lVithin the channel member I provide a trolley 14 comprising a body 15 made preferably of sheet metal with a horizontal central web 15a and vertical side members 15b which are longer than the web 15"L and betweenV which anti-friction rollers 16 are journaled on pivots 17. Said rollers are adapted to roll freely upon the inner surfaces of the flanges 18 of the channel member 10 on opposite sides of the aforesaid slot, while a hanger bolt 19 projects upward through the slot and is fitted in the center of the web 15a as by means of a nut 20.

The aforesaid rail is indicated at 21 and may be of any suitable construction or design, but shown herein as being made of a single piece of rod metal projecting horizontally through a hub 22 where it may be locked by means of a set screw 23 and the rod is then bent so as to comprise upper and lower members 21 and 21b having at one end an integral vertical connection 24 and at the other a vertical connection 25, one end of which projects downward at 25 through and beyond a knuckle 25a so as to constitute a handle. The rail member 21 as a whole is preferably centered or balanced with respect to the trolley 14 and the hanger bolt 19 through which the rail is adapted to be rotated around the axis of the bolt irrespective of the position of the trolley along the channel member.

26 represents a guard made of a piece of sheet metal, or its equivalent, through which the bolt 19 projects at its center and has upwardly tiirned tongues 26 projecting through the slot and standing close to the rollers 16.' This guard substantially hides the trolley from view and prevents any possibility of lace or other sheer fabric Jfrom accidentally being projected into the slot and damaged by the trolley.

*They hub may be ,made of any suitable metal or the like and provided along its upper endwith a circumferential series of vertical notches 27 into which may be fitted double spring gripper arms 28 between the arms of which a pair of trousers, skirt or other garment to be held lat may be slipped. These arms project laterally at any desired angle from the plane of the rail 21, and

hence do not interfere in any manner with -therail nor the hanging of garment hangers or the like upon the lower portion 2lb c thereof.

In the practice of this inventionV garments may be hung as above described on the rail or the hub arms and the rail and trolley from which it is hung may be moved in any direction along the channel member or rotated around the axis of the hanger bolt 19 as will be appreciated from the' rst two figures. The handle gives easy and ready access for the movement of the device along the channel member or around the vertical axis aforesaid.

I claim: Y

In a wardrobe iixture, the combination of a channel member having along its bottom a pair of spaced supporting flanges, a trolley movable along the flanges within the channel member, a garment supporting rail beneath the channel member, a hub connection between the rail and the trolley, and a guard between the hub and the channel member serving to seclude the trolley, substantially as set forth.

BERNARD Barrena. 

